Widget Content

The Widget Content feature adds the use of an advanced editor to create widget content. A new Widget Content top-level menu is now on the back-end and allows for creation of widget content with the same interface as posts and pages. Once a Widget Content entry is saved, you can add the Widget Content widget to a sidebar location and select the desired Widget Content entry from the drop down to add that content to a sidebar.

This new feature was announced by Chris Jean recently, and we now have a full webinar recording in which Chris walks through how to use Import/Export, step by step.

In this webinar you will learn what the feature does, when you might want to use it, and when it makes more sense to use BackupBuddy. Chris also reviews all the other changes he incorporated into Builder 2.8.0.

All iThemes Builder users should watch this video, especially those of you involved in web design and development as a career.

Custom Module Styles

Introduction

Builder provides the ability to select a custom style for a module when the module is being edited in Layout Editor. The name of custom module style and corresponding CSS class are defined in child theme's functions.php.

Custom Module Styles are present by default in these child themes: Americana and its color variants, Blueprint, Ionic and its color variants, Classen, Encased.

Custom Module Styles can also be easily added to other Builder child themes.

Example

Objective: To set a custom style to a specific image module so that the module's wrapper (which is full width by default in Americana) gets blue background that matches the image background.

The screenshot below shows how the site appears before we create and apply the custom style to the image module (top most in the layout):

More Examples

Custom Widget Styles

Builder provides a easy way to apply a style (Ex.: "Yellow Background") to a widget. This style's CSS (Ex.: "background: yellow;") is to be defined in style.css for a selector whose name is defined in functions.php.

Note:

Only the Widget Content widget supports this option currently

The support is already built into Builder, but like the Module Styles, the option will not appear unless the child theme provides some Widget Styles. Since none of the child themes do this yet, the option does not appear by default.

If you want to start using this in your own child themes with the realization that it will be limited to Widget Style widgets, you can add code like the following to your child theme's functions.php file:

Then all you'll need to do is change "Style Name 1" and "Style Name 2" to be the names you want for the Widget Styles and "css-class-1" and "css-class-2" to be the classes you want to be applied for each Widget Style. Simply call "builder_register_widget_style" and provide a name and class for each Widget Style you wish to add.

Example

The above code has been added before the closing PHP tag in functions.php of BuilderChild-Blueprint theme.

Screenshots at Appearance -> Widgets before and after adding the above code:

Before and After

The following has been added at the end of theme's style.css:

.css-class-1 {
background: yellow !important;
}

or we can write more specific CSS like the following to avoid using !important:

.builder-module-sidebar .css-class-1 {
background: yellow;
}

Screenshots of how the site appears before and after doing the above:

Before and After

Henceforth any widget content widget that should get a yellow background can simply be set this style "Style Name 1" at Appearance -> Widgets.

Analytics and JavaScript Code

Builder makes it very easy to enter Google Analytics ID and custom JavaScript code that you might want to enter in <head> and/or just above </body> sections.

Note: After entering Google Analytics ID in Builder settings,

1. it might take a day or two for Google Analytics to show tracking data in your account.